Quotes About Conflict

Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.

War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.

We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off?" - Quellcrist Falconer

The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.

I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam.

Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.

I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is mere camouflage; a third road does not exist.

There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.

Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did, I don't live it: no, I am not him.

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.

Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.